The profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada recommended the adoption of the draft law on medical cannabis in the second reading
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The Parliamentary Committee on the Health of the Nation recommended for adoption the draft law on the legalization of medical cannabis in the second reading with changes. In total, the committee considered 840 amendments to the draft law.
This was reported by the head of the committee on national health, medical care and medical insurance, Mykhailo Radutskyi, and the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk.
According to Radutskyi, the biggest changes relate to access to treatment and increased control over the production of cannabis-based drugs.
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In particular, it concerns the following changes to the second reading:
- the law obliges the government to move medical cannabis in the List of narcotic drugs from prohibited drugs to permitted under strict control;
- the import of raw materials is allowed so that patients do not have to wait for medicines for several years;
- The Ministry of Agrarian Policy must maintain a register of legal entities that will carry out cultivation and processing of industrial hemp. Access to the register will be provided to the National Police;
- laboratory control of THC (the main psychoactive component of cannabis) will be carried out exclusively in state specialized laboratories – the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Border Service, the Ministry of Justice, the State Medical Service;
- a ban will be introduced on the sale of cannabis plants and their processing products with any THC content for recreational use;
- patients will be able to carry the appropriate medicines with them, transport them and store them in the amount determined by one prescription.
The purpose of draft law No. 7457 is to expand patients’ access to medical preparations based on cannabis.
“The adoption of this bill will create a mechanism for the controlled use of cannabis plants in Ukraine in medicine and science. Patients with cancer and many other diseases will have access to the necessary treatment.” – the Ministry of Health notes.
Bill No. 7457 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on June 10, 2022.
On June 28, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized the need to legalize medical cannabis in Ukraine.
On June 29, Ukrainian military Mykhailo Bakaliuk, who lost a leg in the war, appealed to the president, the Cabinet of Ministers and parliamentarians with a request to legalize medical cannabis.
Subsequently, the draft law was supported by a number of well-known Ukrainians, including Sevgil Musaeva, editor-in-chief of “Ukrainian Pravda”, journalist Yanina Sokolova, tactical medicine instructor Maria Nazarova, and chef Yevgeny Klopotenko.
On July 12, the National Security and Defense Council called on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt a law on medical cannabis.
More than 40 oncologists, surgeons and medical directors from all over Ukraine signed an open letter to the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada calling for the adoption of a law on the legalization of medical cannabis.
On July 13, the Council supported the draft law on medical cannabis in the first reading.
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